Two-way life: Warriors guard Quinn Cook is riding the waves of life with the NBA’s new two-way contracts

Special to The AthleticMar 12, 20189

By Ryan Lindsay

Quinn Cook doesn’t have a home. In October, a week after he was cut from the Atlanta Hawks, he boarded a plane and flew to Houston to suit up with the Warriors, leaving his apartment and what he thought was a sense of security behind.

Now, “home” looks like a hotel room. And there isn't much in that hotel room. No decorations. No pictures of family or a cozy blanket. Just his Nintendo, and for Cook, that’s enough.

“I try to keep it as simple as possible,” Cook said recently. “You can’t get too comfortable because you don’t know where you’ll be in the next two days, the next week, the next two weeks.”

Cook, a 6-foot-2 guard out of Duke, is a part of the NBA’s inaugural class of two-way contract players. He splits his time between the Warriors and their G League team in Santa Cruz. The arrangement allows him to spend up to 45 days with an NBA club. Chris Boucher, the rookie out of Oregon, is the...